The Tenth Comes <Travel>

[Nira]

Tarah stretched out her arms, freshly awoken after a couple years of vacationing. It felt good to relax once in a while. However, the world moved on while she was resting, and so it was time to see what changed. All the new faces of the world would certainly be interesting to see—she knew just where to go to see the biggest variety of differences between nations.

No better place than where all the villages intersect.

Tarah smiled and pulled a map and gyrocompass out of her kimono sleeves. She studied her current location, Hotsprings, and determined the best path to the capital of Grass.

A couple years of laying about. She wondered if her legs were up for the walk. Well, she never liked walking that much, anyway.

Tarah bent down and shifted the muscle mass in her legs, concentrating her strength, and looked up at the distant sky.

Time to fly.

She jumped, going over a hundred meters up into the air, and opened up her multicolored wings. She felt the wind through her hair and the coolness against her skin. Slowly, she climbed until she was over a thousand meters high.

Towards the south she glided, into familiar territories. The Land of Fire's great and expansive borders were just ahead.

<Move to Fire>

[Kinzoku]

[MOVED]

[Nira]

Tarah descended partway during her flight to the Grass. Night had come, and the stars flickered happily in the sky.

Her landing location was a hospital with stone walls. Using her abilities in the earth release, she slipped into the stones. She entered the hospital this way through the roof, and looked around the rooms until she found an empty one she could drop down into.

Then, it was merely an easy act of stealth. She did as ninjas were known to do, and slipped around the hospital halls, avoiding all prying eyes. That also included any recording equipment, too. She visited every patient room with unconscious patients—each time by slipping in through the walls. She checked every chart, looking for someone who was at the hospital for minor reasons.

Girl roughly around the same age as Tarah appeared. Tan skin and brown hair. Broken leg. Surgery tomorrow. That was the one.

Tarah split her soul in two, letting her Janice personality bubble into the surface of the soul split. Janice then transformed into the girl with a simple henge.

Then Tarah killed the sleeping girl. It was a quick and quiet death—crystal needles into the brain. No sound and no stained bedding.

She took the dead girl and slipped up through the ceiling. Janice stayed behind in the bed, pretending to be the sleeping girl.

In a dark corner of a neighboring building's rooftop, Tarah cut off the girl's hand and consumed the rest of the body's biomass into her own. With the genetic information and chakra consumed, Tarah was able to transform into a perfect genetic copy of the girl. This was to be her appearance for a good while.

Then, with all the necessary items and procedures, Tarah set up a resurrection ritual. She switched places with Janice so that she could actually get some rest at the hospital bed while Janice finished up the setup. It took quite a while, but once everything was ready, Janice used up the chakra and materials necessary to raise the girl from the land of death.

Thankfully, her soul wanted to come back. Probably since it wasn't aware of why it left in the first place.

Janice knocked the girl out before her reconstructed body fully awoke. She also broke the girl's leg again, since the resurrection fixed that, and then carried her back to the hospital.

Tarah awoke, refreshed, and absorbed Janice before replacing the girl in her rightful bed.

She then slipped back up to the rooftop and took flight, climbing some thousands of meters as she continued on the path indicated by her map and gyrocompass. Her new hair was at a different length, but it wasn't anything she couldn't get used to.

She flew by the birds that occupied the skies with her. Her village's country passed on by beneath. Beyond all of that was the land of great plains and clean rivers.

Yes, the Grass there at the horizon.

<Traveling to Grass/Paying 18,000 Ryo for a Raise Dead Ritual>

50% Restoration Ritual discount in effect.

[Kinzoku]

[MOVED]

[TRANSACTION COMPLETE]

[Nira]

"Time to see the world again."

/exit